exaggeration

[ ig-zaj-uh-rey-shuh n ]

/ ɪgˌzædʒ əˈreɪ ʃən /

the act of exaggerating or overstating.

an instance of exaggerating; an overstatement: His statement concerning the size of his income is a gross exaggeration.

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1555–65; < Latin exaggerātiōn- (stem of exaggerātiō), equivalent to exaggerāt(us) (see exaggerate) + -iōn- -ion

Related formsnon·ex·ag·ger·a·tion, nouno·ver·ex·ag·ger·a·tion, nounself-ex·ag·ger·a·tion, noun

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And this big box that encloses him is only an exaggeration of his regular nerd-dandy clothes.
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No exaggeration, Ronaldo is one of the two best footballers in the world.
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Wolf is about the American Dream gone haywire, so exaggeration is the name of the game.
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Now, don't go away fancying there's any exaggeration in that study.
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Kentucky is, without the least exaggeration, one of the finest districts on the face of the earth.
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So in passing to the West, Eastern ideas and Eastern exaggeration, misconstrued, became caricature.
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It would be an exaggeration to assert that all the princes of Italy were of this sort.
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The language of passion and exaggeration may silence that of sober reason in other places, it has not done it here.
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1560s, from Latin exaggerationem (nominative exaggeratio), noun of action from past participle stem of exaggerare (see exaggerate).